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Call for submission by April 30th, 2018: Good Practice Examples of Local Faith Community Responses to Refugees

26. April 2018

The Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) Refugee Hub is collaborating with UNHCR to undertake an analysis of Good Practice Examples of Local Faith Community Responses to ...

PaRD Task Group meeting to discuss future governance structure of PaRD

27. March 2018

As mandated at the Second PaRD Annual Meeting, a 5+5+1-Task Group consisting of each five representatives of members and partners as well as the PaRD secretariat met from January 31st ...

KAICIID: A busy February in Vienna

20. March 2018

Surrounding KAICIID's fifth anniversary, the Vienna-based intergovernmental organization founded by Saudi Arabia, Austria and Spain with the Holy See as a founding Observer gathered key members and partners on three ...

World Economic Forum: The Power of Faith

15. February 2018

Session at the Annual Meeting 2018 ...

LWF: A faith-inspired resistance to violence

25. January 2018

LWF General Secretary Junge visits indigenous community in Colombia ...

16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence

17. January 2018

Member organisations of the international Side by Side faith movement for gender justice participated in creative ways with the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence ...

The Ouagadougou Partnership held its sixth annual meeting

20. December 2017

The meeting focused on “women’s empowerment and the contraception revolution” in Conakry from December 12th to 14th 2017 with religious actors as significant participants. ...

PaRD Second Annual Meeting: Faith in the Sustainable Development Goals

14. December 2017

Reaffirming their commitment to continue and strengthen their cooperation, PaRD members and partners gathered in Wilton Park/Wiston House, UK for the 2nd PaRD Annual Meeting on November 12th to 15th ...

Equipping Youth as Interfaith Messengers of Peace

4. December 2017

The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) organised a "Peace Messenger Training" in Jerusalem with the objective of enabling participants to plan and facilitate local trainings for sharing skills and experience in ...

World AIDS Day 2017 – Action Alert from World Council of Churches

26. October 2017

The World Council of Churches calls for prayers and reflections for children and adolescents living with HIV on December 1st 2017. ...

Stockholm Civil Society Days 2017: Which positive effects can religious actors have on sustainable development?

17. October 2017

This question was discussed at a workshop titled “Exploring holy and unholy alliances – why religion matters in combating shrinking civic space" on September 21st, 2017 in Stockholm. ...

Merkel at international peace meeting: “Religions have a mandate to work for peace”

21. September 2017

"Dialogue between religions is possible as well as necessary," Chancellor Merkel said at the Sant'Egidio International Peace Meeting. There was never any justification for war and violence in the name ...